Tool-handle



G. I. JOHNSON. TOOL HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10, I921.

1,388,571 Patented Aug. 23, 1921.

inventor UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE T. JOHNSON, OF WACO, TEXAS.

TOOL-HANDLE.

Application filed March 10, 1921. Serial No. 451,189.

will withstand unusually hard wear with out breaking.

It is an object of this invention to produce a reinforcing feature of the character indicated in which the reinforcing element is anchored to prevent its displacement with respect to the wooden part of the handle, and it is, of course, capable of use in connection with many tools such as hammers, hatchets, axes, shovels, spades, hoes, etc; it being the purpose of the inventor to produce a device of the character indicated which will be practically unbreakable and yet will afford the necessary yielding action or spring to avoid jarring the hands of the operator while in use.

It is furthermore an object of this invention to produce a reinforcing element in a handle of the character indicated and provided with anchoring means which will prevent lateral motion of the reinforcing element with respect to the handle.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 illustrates a side elevation of the handle showing a device embodying the invention applied thereto;

Fig. 2 illustrates an edge view thereof;

Fig. 3 illustrates a perspective view of the reinforcing element; 1

l'ig. 4 illusti ales a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. l; and

Fig. 5 illustrates a section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1.

In these drawings 10 denotes a handle preferably of wood having a longitudinally disposed slit 11 which extends edgewise thereof, which slit forms a seat for the min forcing element, the said slit terminating at its inner end in outwardly beveled walls which form shoulders 12 and 13 for a purpose to be presently explained. The slit is here shown as extending from edge to edge of the handle and the said handle has an aperture 14: therethrough.

The reinforcing element comprises a plate 15 of irregular contour on its edges, it being understood that the contour will conform to the shape of the edges of the handle, and the said plate has an aperture 16 which is adapted to aline with the aperture M of the handle for the purpose of receiving an anchoring element 17 such as a rivet which is intended to hold the reinforcing element and handle in assembled relation to each other. As a further means for insuring the correct positioning of the reinforcing element with respect to the handle and for preventing dislodgment of the reinforcing element with relation to the handle, the inner end of the reinforcing element is recessed as at 18 to the contour of the shoulders 12 and 13 which they are adapted to engage or abut.

l have referred to the aperture 16, the aperture it and the element 1'? in the singular, but it is to be understood that these may be increased in number if the length of the handle or other conditions justify a plurality of anchoring elements such as 17.

I claim:

A tool handle having a slit extending longitudinally and edgewise thereof terminating at its inner end in diagonally opposed shoulders, the said handle having a transverse aperture, a reinforcing element comprising a plate having an aperture alining with the aperture of the handle and a recess in its end conforming to the shoulders, whereby the end of the reinforcing element contacts the shoulders, and a fastening ex tending through the apertures of the handle and reinforcing element.

GEORGE T. JOHNSON. 

